| | From Feb 26th to March 11th is Fairtrade Fortnight here in the UK.
A work colleague has committed to eat nothing but food with the fairtrade mark on it for the duration of the entire fortnight and a few of us decided to join him for the day.
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It was a lot harder than expected - here's what I ate today!
Breakfast - banana and a chocolate covered waffle
mid-morning snack 1 - banana
late- morning snack 2 - banana
pre-lunch nibble - a fruit and seed flapjack
Lunch - rice with honey, bananas and pine nuts
afternoon tea - banana
late afternoon reward - chocolate wafer biscuit thing
pre- dinner sustenance item to keep me going until I got home - brazil nuts
Dinner - quinoa with mango chutney.
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Earlier this evening I almost felt like giving up as I was going round my local supermarket. I couldn't face eating another banana. Passing all the rows of nice looking food in search of the fair trade products was like looking for a needle in a haystack. I left with 2 items in my shopping basket having bought the only items that were not snack/chocoalte related.
I've realised that I've become so used to paying cheap prices and not really knowing the unfair labour practices on so much of my daily food.
I've also learned that I should have shopped ahead and gone to a supermaket with more choice!
Check out http://www.tearfund.org/Campaigning/Trade/Fairtrade+Fortnight+2007.htm for more info.
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